PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Deployment and maintenance of Business Intelligence applications.
• Experience in the documentation of system and business requirements and specifications, step - by step technical and user manuals, design and development of use and test-case scenarios and root-cause analysis, developing test plans, conducting user acceptance testing,, and implementing new processes and technology.
• Expertise in identification of Business and Data requirements and converting them into conceptual and logical data models.
• Over 10 years of solid Expertise on BI platform in Creating Complex Applications using Business Objects Designer, IDT, RichClient, Desktop Intelligence, Supervisor, Web Intelligence, Broadcast Agent, BCA Publisher, ZABO, Info View, BO Auditor, Desktop Intelligence (XI R2), CMC, Import Wizard, Report conversion tool, Migration Wizard in Intranet and Extranet environments.
• Expertise in Business Objects versions BI 4.1/4/3.1/R2/6.5/5.1, which include Installation, creating and administering repositories, universes, customizing thin & full client reports.
• Proficient in translating report requirements into detailed report specifications, confirm report design with business users and creating reports using Business Objects BI 4. XI 3, XI R2, 6.5.x/5.x.
• Expertise in gathering the business requirement and building Universes in the Designer, retrieving data using Universes, Personal data files, Free hand SQL methods and creating complex ad-hoc Reports using data access and report design using Web Intelligence modules.
• Very good understanding of Data Warehousing Design Methodology, Data Warehouse Concepts Kimball University
• Knowledge and understanding of Business objects functionality using Aggregate Awareness, Custom Hierarchies, user objects, functions and table concepts.
• Possess excellent communication, decision-making, Problem Solving, Analytical, and Interpersonal skills with result-oriented dedication towards goals.
• Credentials include ADP II and secret clearance for Govt sponsored projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Reporting Tools: Business Objects 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/6/6.5/ webi 2.5/2.6/6.0/3.1 Rich client xcelsius 2008, Crystal and Cognos

Modules: Designer, Supervisor, Developer, Auditor, BCA server, Info view and Desk Intelligence, Web Intelligence, CMS administration on BO XI R2. XI 3.1 SP4Application Software: Visual Basic 5.0/6.0,Developer 2000/Informatica

RDBMS: Oracle /11g/10g/9/8.0/7.3,Sybase, MS Access 97, SQL and Db2

Operating Systems: Windows NT/98, 2000, UNIX, MS DOS

Hardware: IBM PC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Business Objects Analyst/Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Presently working on various internal projects such as GAIN, ICS, Infinium Historical data, Shared Services and other ongoing assignments primarily focused on providing a stable BOBJ platform environment with effective reporting solutions to the business users from varied ERP’S channeled through ECC,BW and BEx as main data source.
• Managing off shore team with development cycle activities and monitoring work flows within BI team. Interaction with business users as to understand their requirement to provide reporting toolsets functionality along with support in the long run. Providing and demonstrations to users Monitoring the system within Administration tools such as CMC for security and version control for moving contents within application development cycle.

Business Intelligence Sr. Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Engaged in Business Intelligence area within data warehouse shop involving heavy interaction with business users and technical staff. Primary focus is towards creating business mappings - universes and web intelligence/bi portal for varied reporting solutions in the company.
• Presently working on many ongoing assignments such as Retirement Quick Plan, Global Currency, Bill pay and Open Source Chat projects to provide reporting solutions to business users through creation of universe or modifying existing reports.
• Completed a full cycle FINRA compliance ad hoc reporting project within company to replace Regitt application with business objects. This sensitive assignment demanded a special attention and handling of employee data from a regulatory and compliance perspective. Worked closely with business users and technical team to provide a functional, economical and user friendly ad hoc reporting solution with web intelligence reports. Special folder level security was implemented to enable only compliance users to create and view reports
• Created activity performance reports via audit universe to show key indicators on reports. Users, universes, etc. Actively engaged in providing documentation and directions to the business objects user with best practices and knowledge resource including support within company.

IT Specialist/business objects consultant

Confidential, Philadelphia

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a complete life cycle of converting existing PFE/FVA tool reports to web intelligence and xcelcius reports for Defense Logistics Agency as part of a SAP BW integration assignment. Created Web intelligence and dashboard reports for proto type demo and Kick off meetings. Initiated Gap analysis for data sources to convert existing cognos reports currently sitting on Oracle defined schemas to business objects reports through BW mappings.
• Completed cubes/DSO technical and mapping documentation with detail validation and care for PFE/FVA assignment per DLA standards.

Sr. Business Objects Developer/Analyst

Confidential, Falls Church VA

Responsibilities:

• Engaged in a DOD sponsored TED project with presentation layer of standard and Ad-hoc reports for the application using Business Objects desk intelligence and info view. It consists of STAGING and ODS universes that use tables of the Staging and ODS database.
• Feedback on the TED application processes are reported to EIDS and TMA in standard reports under RM, TED Monitoring and Cycle Metadata Reports. Additional ad hoc reports are available to support the departments to perform any queries on the TED ODS tables.
• Involved with analysis and implementation of any future upgrades, installation and deployments related to Business Objects.
• Resolved and troubleshooted the RM reports in an event of report generation failures. Used BO administrative tools/services to rectify the problem to make sure that report are run and published normally for the next cycle.
• Initiated business objects subject matter for the other members of team working on the project assignment.
• Worked on a planned initiative to move current BO xi platform to xi 3.1 with added webi components.

Business Intelligence Developer

Confidential, Edison NJ

Responsibilities:

• The consulting company has more than 100 projects currently going on over different part of the world in areas of technology implementation and providing clients with end to end business intelligence solutions...
• Assisted data warehouse team in developing Quality Assurance process, Performance tuning SQL and documentation. Working with Data Architect and Subject Matter Experts SME to design, develop and document Business Objects universes. Work with development and testing team to assist in resolving BO/data related issues and trouble shoot tickets involving reports, user’s .requirements, security and other Data warehousing areas.
• Updating new skills in performance management tools such as Crystal Xcelcius, dash board and KPI reporting areas for future assignments.

BO - Designer & Admin Support

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• The company offers individual and institutional investors/clients a diverse line of investment vehicles including mutual funds, college savings plans, and retirement planning products and other managed accounts.
• Designed a universe. Responsibilities included understanding of tables, data models and universe structure. Involved in ongoing interaction with other members for various inputs in the development of test phase of this project.
• Made several enhancements to the IM and Asset Allocation universes.
• Provided Business Objects demonstrations and additional to users around the organization and assisting with portfolio reporting needs. Completed work on a special report for the global performance and comparisons of major financial institutions for portfolio managers with projections and analytical data to evaluate business trends.
• Worked on creating universe hierarchies to allow drilling capability in preparation for rolling out Web intelligence reports for users.

Business Objects Analyst

Confidential, NY/NJ

Responsibilities:

• Focused on to provide timely and adequate support including maintenance of BO reports, universes, and BCA schedules. This included support of the daily report cycle and providing solutions to BO end-user issues and inquiries with existing reports.
• Investigate and resolve performance issues with BO Reports (canned and ad-hoc) in a timely and efficient manner.
• Troubleshoot reporting issues and contribute to development efforts using sql and BO as a query generating tool. Provided support to the end users with repository and security administration with change management for ongoing projects.
• Created BO security layer through SUPERVISOR tool to implement branch level restrictive access of data so that user could only see relevant data according to their roles and privileges. Managed different groups included groups with multiple roles and managed this administrative tool with care.
• Contributing to the team effort and output by interacting with users and the team to improve timeliness and quality of results. Responded to the BO end users in a timely manner to answer their questions and resolve issues.
• Maintaining documentation on BO standards and procedures to reflect updated business object subjects for example the universe update log would have all changes documented for any past changes and in any universe structure.
• Extensively used Business Objects functionality like Aggregate Awareness functions on summary tables, custom Hierarchies, custom LOV files, pre defined conditions, users objects and formulas in the creation of universes.

Business Objects Analyst/Consultant

Confidential NJ

Responsibilities:

• Business Objects Analyst: Provided centralized administration and support for all worldwide GE users pertaining to human resource data provider with a large universe of over 300 tables and multiple repository setups.
• Managed change management tickets to improve support efficiency in a timely manner. Coordinated and follow up with vendor for special cases such as upgrades, patches and other replacement. Maintained documentation to follow procedures and implement change management.

Business Objects Developer

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Built semantic layer for the Data warehouse project from initial requirements to completion.
• Designed a Financial/Studies warehouse universe. Responsibilities included understanding of tables, data models and universe structure. Involved in ongoing inter action with other members for various inputs in the development and test phase of this project.
• Monitoring the Sales& Commission production loads, reconciling the weekly MIS load and maintaining table values.
• Made several enhancements to the S& C universe and provided BO demonstrations and additional to users around the organization in assisting with center reporting needs. Completed work on a special report for the regional distributors generating business through Smith Barney. This report entailed creation of variables from the existing universe objects to adding new required columns needed to make report functional.
• Worked on creating universe hierarchies to allow drilling capability in preparation for rolling out Web Intelligence to Life Brokerage.

Business Object Developer

Confidential, Phillipsburg, NJ

Responsibilities:

• This project entailed trouble shooting an existing Sales and Marketing Universe.
• Worked on enhancement to improve Ad Hoc reporting capability.
• Involved with Test queries to run to generate reports for validation.
• Maintained and enhanced the existing universes.
• Analyzed and explored the reports using Slice and Dice and Drill Down functionality.
• Scheduled and process the reports at the server level using Doc Agent Server.

Quality Assurance and testing

Confidential, New York City

Responsibilities:

• Extensive exposure in the hospitality industry. Handled front office, reservation department and night manager duties. Resolved various customer related issues and made sure for a smooth functioning of the hotel operations
• Commitment and dedication towards guests to create sound business relation and generate repeat business for the company.
• Excellent communication skills to bring best in customer relations and service.